I am in the
process of moving house – downsizing! My
garden is too big for me to manage and as my R.A is playing havoc with my
mobility I have decided to move to a smaller property. My new place has a garden a quarter of the
size of my present garden, however there is an upside, it is on the edge of
town and will have an outlook of paddocks and the Tararua ranges. My neighbours will be sheep and it will be interesting
to see what the cats make of them!
I am in the
process of getting rid of stuff! Lots of
stuff! I have been here 10 years and my
lordy I have heaps of stuff! On Monday I
took a large load to the local hospice.
Good, you would think, well I succumbed to the sight of some china. I have a thing about china, especially
teacups. I walked out the shop with two
sets.
This:
And this:
I adore the
green set, such an unusual colour, and I seem to have a thing about green at
the moment.
Yesterday
it rained, which is good as we desperately need it here. But it meant I couldn't get out in the garden
(I am in the process of tidying it up and potting up cuttings for my new
place.) I thought I would have a go at
making a tea cozy that I mentioned a couple of posts ago. I had it all planned
in my head, but discovered to my dismay that the ivory cotton I thought I had
was only remnants of a previous ball! I didn't want to go out and buy some as I was nicely settled so I made this instead:
It was just
big enough for my smallest teapot and I am rather pleased with it, I need to
sort out the decreasing rounds when I make bigger ones. I used popcorn stitch and it gives the cozy
enough thickness to not have to line it.
I had to
test it out this afternoon and it did keep the tea hot. To celebrate my new cups and the cozy I
decided to bake a cake, something I haven’t done for a while. It is a really quick and easy recipe. Pineapple Fruit Cake, very yummy.
Pineapple Fruit Cake
16 oz (450g) canned crushed pineapple
2 ½ cups dried
mixed fruit
1 cup castor sugar
4oz (125g) butter
Pinch salt
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp baking soda
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 cup plain flour sifted with 1 cup self-raising flour
Oven temp 160 C
(360 F)
Mix the pineapple, butter sugar, spice, fruit, salt and
bring to boilo and cook for 15 minutes. Add Baking Soda and cool. When cold add eggs and flour. Mix and put in a lined cake tin (20cm) and
bake in lower half of oven for 2 – 2 ½ hours.
Allow to cool a bit before moving from tin.
I have
realised that I have now been blogging here for just over a year! Time flies.
I have enjoyed showing you all my makes over the last year and of course
visiting you all. However, over the next
month or so I don’t know if I will have time to post with all that I have to do
for the move. So, bear with me, and
hopefully normal service will resume at the end of April. I will still be working on my blankets and be
doing the odd doily when time and energy allows.
Ambrose is
finding this moving lark rather exhausting.
Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful weekend.
